Uhhh because I need them all
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but once I’m done, I close them all
Same. But I also have a continuous stream of new projects that never get finished.
on desktop, hell no. On mobile, I just wanted to see what would happen if I stopped closing them once in a while. it lags my phone so bad every time I scroll through them. It look about 1 minute to get through the entire list lol
my estimate is about 800, but I am not gonna spend time counting them
Stress testing is always a valid reason and a noble cause. Keep those tabs coming. You’re only getting warmed up with 800ish tabs. You can go much higher than that. I believe in you!
For me, it more boils down to keeping my place within a web page or ever-updating feed.
For instance... If I'm going down a rabbit hole, I could have 4 root tabs open. Those tabs may have lengthy articles and would reference secondary sites throughout the page. Rather then having a good chance of the browser losing my place down the page by clicking on a link normally, I open it in a new tab. This allows me to switch to it, skim down to where it was referenced to understand that part of it, then switch back to the root tab while leaving the secondary tab open to fully read through when I finish with the root one. As the rabbit hole deepens, those secondary tabs may eventually become root tabs which may also reference their own secondary sites or even each other. The number of tabs just keeps growing until I either run out of those secondary tabs or I am just satisfied with the amount of info I gained. This can also happen over several days or weeks and have other rabbit holes open at the same time.
Yeah that makes a lot of sense too. That sort of forking is very common, especially when reading Wikipedia articles. Occasionally I have several wikipedia tabs open, but once I’ve drilled down deep enough, I lose interest, and close all of those tabs.
When researching any topic, it’s really common to have lots of tabs open, but I always close them as soon as they have served their purpose. I guess that’s the key difference here. Actually that difference is interesting. Why do I lose interest so quickly or why do you keep yours open for several days or even weeks?
Because they hadn't heard of this feature called bookmarks
Bookmarks is where all my open tabs go to die and never be remembered again.
... because I can't find the tab I opened 2 days ago, so it's faster open it again... which just creates a negative feedback loop of having too many tabs and not able to find anything.
Case and point: I'm in IT and we use github. Some code requires reviews (which needs "more time" to complete), then often I'm looking at other 3rd party repos' for documentation/examples/etc. Some might be useful, some are related to my current problem. Oh, I get a ping - I need to finish that PR review: "which tab is it? They ALL say github!" ... and I'm too impatient to hover over them. So, it's faster to just type the URL in and go.
I loved browser plugin, Vimperator. It was fantastic, I could (at anytime) type ":b " and it would search through my open tabs. But I've tried a bunch of the "successor", but universally they seem to get "stuck" when it comes to inputting text - either into text fields (like on a normal email form) or as input into the browser extension.
Recently, I found an extension that would group tabs based on your rules (so, I could separate the company github tabs from the OSS). It's far from perfect... but it's endurable.
... but what I really wish for is a Firefox plugin that'll allow me to type parts of the tabs domain or title and it'll filter the results.
I believe vimium does this with T
Edit: Wait, you don't even need that. It's already built-in https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-open-tabs-firefox
Vivaldi (chromium) lets me set tab rules. Tabs will jump to the correct workspace automatically.
That’s quite the vicious circle. More tabs means more problems, and you solve them by adding more tabs. LOL
Anyway, when doing work related stuff, it’s common to need a whole bunch of tabs open at times. However, not closing them is the detail that sets you apart from some other people. I think that opening lots of new tabs is a pretty universal experience, but closing them isn’t.
I typically have 100-200. It’s usually a “let me come back to this in a day or three”, which may or may not happen. Or a thread of “doing research on a topic” and then getting pulled to something else, but not having time to summarize/organize for later. Plus, as others have mentioned, sometimes you need the tab session history.
I really appreciate y’all saying what a monster or computer illiterate I am, though. Don’t tell my boss, she’ll wonder what I do all day.
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Most of my projects require like 2-4 web apps so i constantly have two browser windows open side by side, with a bunch tabs on each
That’s a familiar feeling. However, some people have an absurd number of tabs open all the time. Makes me wonder if they actually use them for something.
ADHD.
Overly the last year or so I've become entirely convinced I have developed ADHD. Is it possible to concuss yourself into ADHD?
It is possible to develop ADHD like symptoms from a TBI of some kind. It's not ADHD from a technical definition standpoint, but from lived experience of symptoms, it can line up with ADHD
No, but life style changes may reveal you had ADHD all along and had just been lucky enough to be unaffected by it.
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